Sara 🍳🍳🍳 @contrabassic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026new arts management job is kicking my butt a bit but at least we have a building rn 030
Reposted by Sara 🍳🍳🍳Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/09/2026Could new bus shelter roofs help New Yorkers stay cool in extreme heat? We're testing a few in Brownsville to find out: a green roof covered with native plants, and reflective roofs covered with low-cost, heat-resilient film. 440123681735
Reposted by Sara 🍳🍳🍳Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This is not how nonprofit bankruptcy works. 838557
Reposted by Sara 🍳🍳🍳Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026Sometimes I feel old for remembering when the tech industry’s primary product wasn’t death threats 111203242
Reposted by Sara 🍳🍳🍳jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I resigned from Acme Corporation today. I spent the last three years doing pre-gag research at both Acme Paint and the broader Acme Corporation. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-painting fake tunnel technology and gambling with our lives. 216629
Reposted by Sara 🍳🍳🍳Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026This man is a fucking monster who limped away from Chicago's mayor's office because he'd become unelectable after closing 50 schools and half of our city's publicly funded mental health care clinics, and covering up the fact that Chicago cops murdered a teenager. Stop whitewashing his ass! 273457908
Reposted by Sara 🍳🍳🍳Eric Allix Rogers @ericallixrogers.com · 02/09/2026Live look at DLSD traffic with the bridge stuck up. 511926
Reposted by Sara 🍳🍳🍳Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops 6277282026
Reposted by Sara 🍳🍳🍳I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 28/08/2026Many people convinced themselves DEI was just a toxic label and they could keep doing similar work under a different moniker but in reality you are dealing with sincere white supremacists who do stuff like this all the time.kcroonews.comUMKC faculty suspended after right-wing undercover video sting on DEIUMKC suspended an employee Thursday morning after a non-profit conservative outlet secretly recorded two conversations about the current Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies. Accuracy in ... 416349
Sara 🍳🍳🍳 @contrabassic.bsky.social · 26/08/2026i got into it with somebody collecting signatures for joe holberg to get on the ballot for mayor and by the end of it the guy (who said he was joe’s personal friend) was yelling at me for saying we could have a mamdani in chicago. anyways i didn’t sign his petition because he yelled at me 🤷🏻♀️ 280
Reposted by Sara 🍳🍳🍳Gabrielle Cornish @gcornish91.bsky.social · 24/08/2026New urban studies meme just dropped 0121
Sara 🍳🍳🍳 @contrabassic.bsky.social · 24/08/2026so when ai crashes will the data centers shut down 030
Reposted by Sara 🍳🍳🍳Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 19/08/2026Gary Indiana hasn't had power for almost two weeksthegrio.com‘I can’t take it’: Thousands of Gary residents go over a week without power after deadly stormsResidents in Gary, Indiana and surrounding areas are struggling to stay cool, fed and connected after storms cause prolonged power outages. 441632783
Reposted by Sara 🍳🍳🍳Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I will never write (because mixed audience) but the heartbreak so many Black people feel isn’t just about neoconfederates and Trump. It’s about how many of our whites friends and colleagues showed how they thought of their Black colleagues. 192433457
Reposted by Sara 🍳🍳🍳Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/07/2026The music industry loves itself some racial segmentation, I swear. 6782110
Reposted by Sara 🍳🍳🍳Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Someone just sent me this photo from Chicago, unbelieveable 35183741145
Reposted by Sara 🍳🍳🍳Christina Henderson @chenderson.bsky.social · 13/07/2026I wish more journalists would point out that Sen. McConnell and Rep. Tom Kean (missed 4 months of work) are/were essentially on paid sick & medical leave. The same employment protection they’ve spent their careers blocking other Americans from having. 7086072967
Reposted by Sara 🍳🍳🍳Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Credible allegations of sexual assault cannot be ignored. Voters in Maine deserve a choice for US Senate that doesn’t force them to make a moral compromise between sexual violence or corporate servitude. 1755946860
Reposted by Sara 🍳🍳🍳FC Staff @fcopenletter.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Botstein likes obscure, neglected, rarely performed works, from outside the standard repertoire. But only some works. By only some composers. Staff, students, artists, and audiences deserve better. tinyurl.com/fcstaffletter 06111
Sara 🍳🍳🍳 @contrabassic.bsky.social · 27/06/2026ok but i almost cried at the smell of the chicken tikka masala samosas at the farmers market this am 030
Reposted by Sara 🍳🍳🍳Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Criminalization is the fuel of fascism. And the people who have been saying this for decades are the PIC abolitionists so many deride. 1492151
Reposted by Sara 🍳🍳🍳ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Please god let this close the portal to Hell the Cubs opened in 2016 163123482157
Reposted by Sara 🍳🍳🍳Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 13/06/2026What I'll say in all earnestness is this: you've only been deprived of a spectacle. It'll happen, and the fact that Trump was forced to do this at the height of his second term, not even after he leaves office, is a huge victory. He's juiceless and somehow losing more. *That's* what sustains you. 271664293
Reposted by Sara 🍳🍳🍳Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 12/06/2026I know I'm always relating everything stupid that happens in the arts world to the 16-month Minnesota Orchestra lockout of 2012-14, but that's because it's always the same bullshit: malevolent, incompetent leaders want to be bowed and scraped to, and if they aren't, they want to kill the whole org. 1241
Reposted by Sara 🍳🍳🍳Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Yep, this was my first question. Fortunately, the KC is a nonprofit and its board minutes are extremely subpoenable. 2213
Reposted by Sara 🍳🍳🍳ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Cast of Laocoön and his Sons (Roman version of a lost Greek original), 100BC-50AD 4886422149
Reposted by Sara 🍳🍳🍳Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 10/06/2026As a lot of you know, I run a kickass little arts organization in rural New England, and *right now,* we have the rare chance to bag $10,000 in matching gifts. It's part of an event called NH Gives, and if you want to help us out, your gift will be doubled if you give before 5pm Eastern tomorrow!nhgives.orgSupport Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music on NH GivesOUR STORYApple Hill Center for Chamber Music is the dream of an undergraduate musician who envisioned teaching students, family and friends in a peaceful setting over the summer months. Incorporated a... 42921
Reposted by Sara 🍳🍳🍳Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/06/2026jealousy is extremely corrosive. 21029
Sara 🍳🍳🍳 @contrabassic.bsky.social · 06/06/2026ok but there is a non zero chance trump falls asleep at the knicks game 050
Reposted by Sara 🍳🍳🍳David Powe @davidpowe.bsky.social · 06/06/2026CDOT lost the best of our team yesterday. We're heartbroken. In memory of Riley O'Neil, please refer to these bike racks as "Riley Racks". He led Chicago's bike parking program for several years. Our hearts are broken, but we want to make sure his legacy lives on 💙🚲 Please spread the word 41879276
Reposted by Sara 🍳🍳🍳Beautiful Women Updates @aoife.bsky.social · 05/06/2026has literally anyone talked to the children involved in the "teen takeovers" and gotten their side of the story or like are we just taking the cops at their word now 24610
Reposted by Sara 🍳🍳🍳jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/06/2026not just prominent figures but absolute gutter racists 211683249
Reposted by Sara 🍳🍳🍳Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 05/06/2026“You don’t understand, he’s unable to keep himself from committing violence against people he sees as lesser because of his problems with emotional regulation” is not the endorsement for political power people seem to think it is and that’s all I will say about that 331349205
Reposted by Sara 🍳🍳🍳The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Just so we’re all crystal clear, the Supreme Court says they’ve gutted the voting rights act and used the fifteenth amendment to justify it; what they’ve really done is to rewrite the fifteenth amendment, designed to protect non-white citizens’ voting rights, as a White Power amendment. 111091283
Sara 🍳🍳🍳 @contrabassic.bsky.social · 01/06/2026i hate it here…courthousenews.comAppeals court does little to help Danny Elfman in defamation suitA woman who once accused the composer of sexual harassment is suing him over a strongly worded denial issued to Rolling Stone. 010
Reposted by Sara 🍳🍳🍳Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 31/05/2026The thing I don’t get about graham platner is that every aspect of your personal life and history is going to cause scandal and deeply compromise the causes in which you say you believe why not just be a weird asshole as a private citizen instead of a political candidate??? 151175101
Reposted by Sara 🍳🍳🍳Max Grafe @amagicreflexham.bsky.social · 29/05/2026let's fucking goooooooapnews.comJudge says Kennedy Center board broke law putting Trump's name on building, blocks closureA federal judge has ruled that President Donald Trump’s name was illegally added to the Kennedy Center and blocked the administration from closing the cultural and arts venue for major renovations. 0286
Reposted by Sara 🍳🍳🍳Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 25/05/2026This is a clear-eyed assessment of the current political situation for Black folks by @perrybaconjr.bsky.social and @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2106...newrepublic.comThe Voting Rights Act Is Dead. Here’s a New Model for Black Politics.After Callais, the old civil rights politics is moot. And more recent strategies have limited reach. Here’s how we can build something more transformative. 13915
Reposted by Sara 🍳🍳🍳Max Grafe @amagicreflexham.bsky.social · 22/05/2026I would genuinely like nothing better than to fire Norman Lebrecht into the sun 1132
